THE BATTLE BOOK OF YPRES. The Ypres Times. 171' MEMBERSHIP OF THE LEAGUE. This is open to all who served in the Salient, and to all those whose relatives or friends died there, in order that they may have a record of that service for themselves and their descendants, and belong to the comradeship of men and women who understand and remember all that Ypres meant in suffering and endurance. Life membership, £2 10s. Annual members, 5s. Special charges are made to those who cannot afford the 5s. subscription. Do not let the fact of your not having served in the Salient deter you from joining the Ypres League. Those who have neither fought in the Salient nor lost relatives there, but who are in sympathy with the objects of the Ypres League, are admitted to its fellowship, but are not given scroll certificates. There is also a J unior Division to which children of those who served iu the Salient, also those who sympathise with our objects, have a right to belong Annual subscriptions Is. up to the age of 18, after which they can become ordinary members of the League. WHAT THE LEAGUE HAS DONE? (1) Organised inexpensive travel and hotel accommodation for pilgrims to the Salient and War Graves. (2) Established Headquarters and a Rest Room at Ypres (11) Rue Surmont de Volsberghe). (3) Published The Ypres Times quarterly for seven years. (4) Published Maps of the Salient and Cemeteries. (5) Erected seven granite Pylons in the Ypres Salient to mark the extreme German advance 1. On the St. Jean Wieltje Road, leading to Shell Trap Farm. 2. Near Potijze on the Zonnebeke Road. 3. Hell Fire Corner on the Menin Road. 4. The railway crossing by the Zillebeke River on the Hill 60 Road. 5 Near Trois Rois on the Lille Road. 6. A point near Yoormezee'e on the Kemmel Road. 7. Near Vierstraat on the Kemmel Road. (6) Given assistance and advice to ex-soldiers over employment and pensions, etc. (7) Commemorated Ypres Day on October 31st at home and abroad. (8) Held re-unions of members in London and the provinces. (9) Taken free pilgrims to the battlefields. (10) Organised a Junior Division. (11) Published a guide book called The Immortal Salient, now in the fourth edition. The Immortal Salient has been compiled with the assistance of the War Office and the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. It provides a Historical record with maps, in addition to being a complete guide to the Salient of Ypres. (Publishers, J ohn Murray.) To be obtained from the Ypres League, price 5/- post free, 5/4. (12) Erected forty signboards marking the follow ing historic spots in the Salient Polygon Wood La Plus Douve Nonne Bosschen Bulgar Wood Glencorse Wood Bass Wood Railway Wood Stone Wood Iron Cross Roads Battle Wood Somrne Farm Maple Copse Gallipoli Farm Zouave Wood Beck House Birr Cross Roads Abraham Heights Hell Fire Corner J olting Houses Shrapnel Corner. Cameron House Observatory Wood Gheluvelt Wood Black Watch Corner Tower Hamlets Y Wood Inverness Copse Kansas Cross Roads Clapham J unction Polderhoek Chateau Stirling Castle FitzClarence Farm Dumbarton Wood Kitchener's Wood Bodmin Copse Mouse Trap Farm Clonmell Copse Hill 60 Shrewsbury Forest Dawson's Corner The League is now compiling The Battle Book of Ypres, a history of notable deeds con tributed by all regiments. A scheme is under consideration for a memorial belfry in the Salient. To the Editor of The Ypres Times. Sir,I have read the manuscript of this work and can safely say that it will make a very acceptable book. Immense labour has been spent on it by Miss Beatrix Brice,_ and the result is a very remarkable collection of notable deeds, which will be read by all who have a knowledge of the Ypres Salient, with the greatest interest there are few notable places that have not a deed which reminds one of them. An admirable companion volume to the Immortal Salient, as well as a unique book of remembrance, it will be invaluable to all Pilgrims who visit the Ypres Battle Area. The book will be published in time for the unveiling of the great Menin Gate Memorial. W. P. PULTENEY, Lieut.-General. .3, Tower Berkeley Street, London, \Y.i. 26th March, 1927

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